WOW.... I CAN'T BELIVE ITS BEEN A WHOLE ASS YEAR SINCE WE RECIEVED THE SONG THAT IS DYNAMITE.
A GLOBAL HIT THAT IS NOW PROBABLY UNTOUCHABLE IN SO MANY WAYS.
From the first announcement of the boys telling us there would be a new single on August 21st..... hearing it from them... i had the feeling it was something special. and boy was it........
Dynamite was yet another MASSIVE TURNING POINT in BTS's career with its release in BTSs 7th year of being a group.
Compiling a list of its first year achievements was tough lol but here I go (though I probably missed some records here and there ):
So lets get it and see what exactly this song achieved in JUST its FIRST YEAR OF RELEASE
Lets start with YouTube:
- Most viewed MV Teaser on YT
- Most viewed MV & video on YT in the first 24 hours at the time (101.1M), (beaten by Butter)
- Most simultaneous viewers for an MV on YT (beaten by Butter)
- Most viewers for the premiere of a video on YT (beaten by Butter)
- Fastest video to 100M and 200M views on YT (beaten by Butter)
- 3rd MOST LIKED MV of all time on Youtube
- Most liked 2020 MV on YT (30M likes)
- Surpassed 1B views in only 235 days (7 months 23 days) becoming the fastest song by a korean group to do so
- Biggest weekly debut for a song in history for any artist
The MV now sits at over 1.2B VIEWS in a year with over 30M likes
Now onto Spotify :
- Debuted at #1 on GLOBAL SPOTIFY with 7.78M streams
- Biggest song debut on the chart in 2020
- Biggest Spotify group debut of all time (broken by Butter)
- Debuted with the biggest counter debut in Spotify history (12.6M) (only recently beaten by Butter and PTD).
- Dynamite earned the biggest debut week for a song in 2020 on Spotify's counter with 56.1M streams
- Biggest debut in history for a group and Korean act on Spotify's weekly chart with 39.9M (broken by Butter)
- Longest charting song by a Korean act on Global Spotify passing BWL (Dynamite is still charting and has not ever gone below #70 with the lowest being on Christmas)
- Surpassed 1B streams on Spotify in 333 days.
- First song by a Korean act to surpass 1B streams
- 17th fastest song in history to reach 1B streams
- Is currently sitting at 1.05B streams in a year
iTunes
- Fastest song in history to reach #1 on iTunes in 100 countries
Music Shows
- Most music show wins in history (32 wins)
- First English song to win a music show
- Longest consecutive No 1 song on Music Core - 10 times
- 2nd most awarded song on Music Bank - 16 times (2nd to @@@f9e0b91a-b08f-4a7a-b1a4-be1379d45678@@@)
Korean Charts
- Fastest song by an idol group to surpass 100k and 200k likes on Melon
- Joined Let it Go as the only English songs to achieve a PAK (now butter is part of that list)
- Surpassed 700k ULs on Melon 24Hits
- Song with the most PAKs in history with 610
Longest charting song in Melon Weekly Chart Top 10 (36 weeks) - Longest Charting #1 song on Melon weekly (11 weeks)
- 2020 song with the most digital points
- First song to stay at #1 on Gaon Monthly for 3 months in a row
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Song with the most hours at #1 of all time on each major Korean music platform
- Melon - Dynamite (1,815)
- Flo - Dynamite (1,885)
- Genie - Dynamite (948)
- Bugs - Dynamite (707)
- Longest charting song at #1 on Melon Daily with 75 days
- Currently ranked at #3 on Gaon’s Year end chart for 2021
- Longest Charting #1 song on the Billboard Kpop 100 (22 weeks)
- Longest running song in top 10 in the BB Kpop 100 (43 weeks)
- Currently has over 1.2B digital points in a year
Shazam
- Dynamite reached #1 on Shazam Global becoming BTSs 1st ever song to top the platform
- Has 6.1M shazams, the most for any korean group and only second to Gangnam Style by 300k shazams
APPLE MUSIC
- Peaked at #2, the highest for a Korean act
- Still currently around number 20
Other
- Became the First 2020 song to reach 1B on Both YT and Spotify
Country Charts:
- Debuted at #8 in Germany (first top 10 for bts and Highest debut for a korean act)
- Debuted at #3 in UK (first top 10 for bts, highest debut by a korean act)
Peaks in Countries
- Argentina - 10
- Australia - 2
- Austria - 9
- Belgium Flanders - 5
- Belgium Wallonia - 3
- Bolivia - 7
- Brazil - 35
- Canada - 2
- Colombia - 44
- Costa Rica - 9
- Croatia - 17
- Czech Republic - 9
- Denmark - 26
- El Salvador - 12
- Estonia - 2
- Finland - 13
- France - 18
- Germany - 8
- Greece - 10
- Guatemala - 6
- Hungary - 1
- Iceland - 21
- India - 8
- Ireland - 6
- Israel - 1
- Italy- 12
- Japan - 2
- Lebanon - 12
- Lithuania - 1
- Malaysia - 1
- Mexico - 1
- Netherlands - 20
- New Zealand - 4
- Norway - 20
- Panama - 6
- Peru - 1
- Poland - 18
- Portugal - 21
- Romania - 47
- Scotland - 1
- Singapore - 1
- Slovakia - 7
- Slovenia - 8
- South Korea - 1
- Spain - 38
- Sweden - 19
- Switzerland - 4
- UK - 3
- Uruguay - 5
- US - 1
- Venezuela - 2
Year end charts
- Argentina - 43
- Australia - 96
- Belgium Flanders - 67
- Canada - 73
- Hungary - 14
- Japan Hot 100 - 18
- Netherlands - 70
- South Korea - 11
- Switzerland - 94
- US Hot 100 - 38
Global 200
- First group and Asian act to top the excluding US chart
- First act/song to top Hot 100, Global 200, G200 excluding US
US:
- Biggest sales week for a song in 3 years
-
DEBUTED AT #1 on the hot 100
- 43rd song in history to debut at #1
- First international group in history to debut #1
- Eligible for RIAA GOLD in 1 week
- #1 for 3 weeks
- Spent 32 weeks on the chart Longest charting song by a Korean act
- Top selling song of 2020 in the US with 1.26M downloads
- Longest Running #1 hit on the digital song sales (18 weeks)
- Dynamite was the 2nd best selling song digitally in the first half of 2021 (only behind Butter)
- Longest charting song by a Korean act inside the Top 10 of BB Hot 100 (13 weeks)
- Highest charting song by a Korean act on US pop Radio
- Eligible for 4 x PLATINUM
Japan:
- First song by a foreign act to rank #1 on Oricon's streaming chart
- First 2020 song to spend an entire year inside the Top 10 of Japan Hot 100
- First act in history receive over 10M streams on Billboard Japan in 2 separate weeks
- First song by a Korean act to reach #1 on Billboard Japan’s Radioplay Charts
- Broke the record for the song by a Korean act to have spent most weeks inside the top 5 of japan hot 100
- Broke the record for highest daily stream peak in Spotify Japan’s History (now the record is held by Butter)
- Fastest song in BB Japan History to surpass 100M streams (surpassed by Butter)
- Fastest song by a Korean act to be certified RIAJ Gold downloads (100k)
- First Korean act to achieve an RIAJ platinum streaming certification (100M)
- Fastest song to surpass 200M streams on BB japan and 300M (5th overall for 300M) (first international act)
- First song by a Korean act to spent more than half a year inside the top 5 of japan hot 100
- Surpassed 250k downloads - first Korean act
- Fastest song in Oricon history surpass 300M streams (3rd song overall, first foreign)
- Ranked #3 on BB Japan 2021 Mid-Year Rankings
- Surpassed 400M streams on BB Japan (first foreign act and 4th song as well as fastest)
Awards
- AAA - Song Of The Year
- Genie Music Awards - Best Single - Dance
- Japan Record Awards - International Music Award
- MMA - Song Of The Year
- MMA - Best Dance (MALE)
- MAMA - Best Dance performance Male Group
- MAMA - BEST MV
- MAMA - Song Of The Year
- MTV EMAs - Best Song
- MTV VMAs Japan - Best Group Video - International
- PCAs - Song of 2020
- PCAs - Music Video of 2020
- BBMA - Top Selling song
- GAON - SOTY August
- Golden Disc Awards - Best Digital Song (Bonsang)
- iHeartRadio Music Awards - MV
- iHeartRadio Music Awards - Choreo
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Best 5 songs by Streaming
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Song of the Year by Download
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Song of the Year by Streaming
- KCAs - Fav Song
- KMAs - Best Pop Song
- KMAs - Song Of The Year
- SMA - Best Song
- MYX Music Awards - Fav International Vid
BIG NOMINATIONS
- MTV Video Music Awards Song Of The Year nomination
- GRAMMY Best Pop Duo/Group performance Nomination
Both of the above marked historical marks with:
- VMAs nom marking the first Korean act to be nominated for a main award at the VMAs
- Grammy Nom Marked the first Korean group to be nominated at the GRAMMYs and first Korean artist to be nominated in the general pop categories
Certifications
- Australia - 2 x PLATINUM - 140,000
- Belgium - GOLD - 20,000
- Denmark - GOLD
- France - GOLD
- Italy - 2 x PLATINUM
- Japan - PLATINUM - 250,000 (downloads)
- Mexico - GOLD - 30,000
- New Zealand - PLATINUM - 30,000
- Poland - PLATINUM - 20,000
- Portugal - PLATINUM - 10,000
- Spain - PLATINUM - 40,000
- UK - PLATINUM - 600,000
- US - 2 x PLATINUM (eligible for 4x) - 2,000,000
- Greece - GOLD - 1,000,000 (streams)
- Japan - PLATINUM - 100,000,000 (streams)
- Korea - PLATINUM - 100,000,000 (streams)
Was announced as the second most streamed song globally in 2021 in April/May.
Charted at #10 on IFPI’s single charts with only 4 months of data (the youngest song on the chart) with 1.28B subscription streams equivalents in that timeframe
Marking the first time a Korean group charted on the IFPI Global Singles Chart and only second song by a Korean act to do so after Gangnam Style
It also made BTS the only act in 2020 to chart on all 4 of IFPI's GLOBAL CHARTS!!!!
Truly a global hit song that's longevity continues to hold strong!!!!!!!!!!
Also a song that bought great happiness and fun to people's lives during trying times last year.
Dynamite..... THE BIGGEST HIT OF ALL TIME BY A KOREAN GROUP
FYI please tell me if i missed anything..... This list is probably missing a bunch of Dynakings records lmao.
Congrats to BTS, ARMYs and Dynamite for completing a year ... the Dyna King will continue to reign